Gresham College Music Lectures

[teamsaint]

I watched one of these about the Britten SQ #2 last night, which was really interesting.

Something in this list for everybody, surely?

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/category/music

does anybody else listen to or watch these? Any you can especially recommend?

[doversoul1]

ts:
This is great!! All these lectures will keep me entertained (in the best sense) probably well beyond Christmas. But isn’t it a sort of thing (musical related lectures by top expert for interested but not professional listeners) that Radio3 should be doing?

I’ve just listen to this. It wasn’t what I thought but very interesting all the same.
The Science of Singing

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-science-of-singing

…and I’ll be listening to/watching this next.
Rome: Corelli and Geminiani

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/rome-corelli-and-geminiani

… and this
London: Music under the shadow of Handel

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/london-music-under-the-shadow-of-handel

Needless to say that the lectures are not all on the subjects of Baroque/early music.

It will take all evening just to look through the list of lectures. Many thanks for pointing to the link.

[MrGongGong]

Brilliant stuff thanks

This will be wonderful

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-sounds-of-the-universe

[aeolium]

Thanks very much, ts - this is a wonderful source of information and illumination. I think the link should be put in the Reference Library of the forum so that it doesn't get lost when this thread fades from view.

I've been listening to this lecture this evening, by Christopher Hogwood on Fakes, Completions and the Art of Borrowing:

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/fakes-completions-and-the-art-of-borrowing

There's a good 25 minutes or so about the Mozart Requiem, and it's worth listening to the Q&A afterwards also, as he identifies the completions (and also savages the Sussmayr completion). I quite liked the Maunder continuation (what a pity the dreadful Sussmayr is the one usually played).

But isn’t it a sort of thing (musical related lectures by top expert for interested but not professional listeners) that Radio3 should be doing?

I totally agree, doversoul. Why couldn't they simply have one of the Gresham lectures as a weekly feature, a different form of Discovering Music and the more refreshing for having different lecturers?

[french frank]

Gresham College Music Lectures

Details of music (and other subjects) lectures:

Investigate here: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/category/music

Browse for past lectures and clips about the 2014/15 season.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

is this the same as

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?12011-Gresham-College-Music-Lectures

?

[french frank]

is this the same as

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?12011-Gresham-College-Music-Lectures

?

Yes. Two people suggested the link should be in the Reference Library so that it would remain there after the thread on the main forum had disappeared.

[Tevot]

This is indeed a very good site and often I have pointed students in the direction of lectures given by Richard J Evans and Vernon Bogdanor amongst others.

[french frank]

I've copied over people's individual links posted on the other thread.

[Padraig]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hogwood

[MrGongGong]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hogwood

Sadly no longer with us

[french frank]

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